This week from the products based on AMD Vega in front of the public, only the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition accelerated, mainly in the form of computer sketches and slides of presentations. The head of the profile division AMD offered gamers to have patience, as the game version of Radeon Vega should also appear on the market this year. At least, one can be sure of this after studying the slides from the recent AMD event. By the way, the name "Radeon Vega" is not final, and
the serial product can get a different name, as the company warns in footnotes to some of the presentations.

First, we would like to talk about the success of Polaris graphics solutions in increasing the share of AMD in the market. According to the information provided by the company, in 2016 the share of AMD graphics processors grew by 5.2 percentage points. If we consider the desktop segment separately, in the last year, AMD's share increased from 20% to 28%, and in the product segment, no more than $ 299 - from 21% to 31%.

It should be recognized that AMD is counting on the help of Polaris graphics solutions in increasing the market share in 2018 as well. We must assume that we are talking about the recently presented products of the Radeon RX 5xx series. As you can see, in the price hierarchy Vega is located a little higher, so the issue of the expansion of carriers of this architecture into more affordable price segments remains open. Except, of course, hybrid processors Raven Ridge, which such a graphic
subsystem will be offered already this year.

For the current year, AMD plans to release graphics solutions Vega in the retail segment by the video card manufacturers, as the next slide says:

In a word, Vega gaming options will be released this year, but they are unlikely to be available...